From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #150 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, June 11 2007 Volume 13 : Number 150 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: What kind of earplugs do you know and love? [Dave ] new releases ["JoAnn Whetsell" ] Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:56:50 -0400 From: Dave Subject: Re: What kind of earplugs do you know and love? I've got a pair of Sonic II hearing protectors. They block out loud sounds while letting normal sounds though. http://www.earinc.com/p1-filtered-sonicvalve.php http://earplugstore.stores.yahoo.net/sonicvalveii.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:38:17 -0400 From: "JoAnn Whetsell" Subject: new releases Thank goodness there isn't much of interest (to me) coming out in the next few weeks. This gives me time to catch up on all the music I've bought recently but haven't listened to much. Like... Joan Osborne - Breakfast in Bed This is a great collection of 70s covers and 70s-sounding originals. It's a bit long (1 hr 6 min), but the last 2 tracks (taken from the Standing in the Shadows of Motown soundtrack) are outstanding. These songs are sensual. Joan takes a slower, seductive approach to them, crooning them rather than belting them out like the covers on Early Recordings and How Sweet It Is. I like both styles. "Midnight Train to Georgia" is surprisingly good; Joan doesn't try to sing it like Gladys Knight; she slows it down and has the good sense not to try to duplicate the Pips' famous "whoo-hoo"s. Bjork - Volta I'm loving this album. The opening track and first single "Earth Intruders" with its stomping beats is a lot of fun, but the rest of the album isn't really like that. There are a lot of beats all over the album, but also a lot of moody and interesting brass arrangements. It's not as "world"ly as I thought it would be from reviews, but Toumani Diabate's kora is nicely used on one track.It's a very rich album; there's so much to discover on repeat listens. Like the vocal soundscapes Bjork has been exploring on her last few albums thrown into a new world. Cowboy Junkies - At the End of Paths Taken Much better than their last album, One Soul Now. AtEoPT is darker and more inventive. Angelique Kidjo - Djin Djin Similar to her 1998 Oremi album, with lots of guest artists and exploration of the connections between music of Africa and the Western hemisphere. You can really hear her growth as an artist since then and the influence of the last years she's spent exploring the African roots of American, Brazilian, and Caribbean music. And it's a testimony to her strength as an artist, that amid the guest artists and the various styles, she's firmly in command of it all. Oh Susanna - Short Stories Similar to her last album, but stronger, I think. Simon Wilcox - The Charm and the Strange Simon goes for more of a rock sound on her third album. It's probably more varied than _Smart Function_, and maybe a little less mainstream. I just got it the other day so I'm still getting into it, but I'm really enjoying it so far. JoAnn _________________________________________________________________ Get a preview of Live Earth, the hottest event this summer - only on MSN http://liveearth.msn.com?source=msntaglineliveearthhm ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:00:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ****************** Sonja Juchniewich (no Email address) ******************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Sonja Juchniewich Mon June 10 1963 Pegasus Joerg Plate Mon June 12 1967 Gemini Chris Montville Tue June 13 1978 Gemini Ectoplasm (original name) Mailing List Thu June 13 1991 Fuzzier blue Paul Huesman Wed June 14 1967 coffee drinker Mark R. 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